The New Net Zero Resistance is Doomed to Fail
4 October 2024
by Ben Pile
News Round-Up
4 October 2024
The BBC's Justin Rowlatt claims climate change is "turbo-charging" problems in Somalia. But the country has had near stationary temperatures and rainfall for 100 years, says Chris Morrison.
New UK teacher training guidelines are pushing educators to "disrupt the centrality of whiteness" by questioning basic concepts like meritocracy and objectivity in a bid to combat racism in classrooms.
Canary Wharf commuters can snag free books on white privilege and colonialism from vending machines, celebrating "diversity and inclusion" for South Asian Heritage Month, Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines from the "leading provider of support for schools and trusts” insist.
The Daily Sceptic’s new Associate Editor Laurie Wastell invites readers to a lecture he is hosting this Thursday with Professor Nigel Biggar about his book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.
Historian David Olusoga can often be heard complaining about the British Empire and its supposedly malign legacy. But in truth the 'British Empire' is not something that every really existed, says Prof James Alexander.
In a surprise to no one, the King of Asante in Ghana says he'd like to keep the golden relics loaned to him by the British Museum. Looks like they're going the same way as the Benin bronzes, says Mike Wells.
Slavery and colonialism did not make Britain rich, and may even have made the nation poorer, a new study from the Institute of Economic Affairs has found.
Is it time for St. George to stand aside for St. George Floyd? Or is there another makeover of England's patron saint that would make him acceptable to the professionally offended and anti-English crowd?
The historian William Dalrymple pompously suggested Kemi Badenoch should "learn some history" after she denied Britain's economic success was due to white privilege. The historian of empire, Nigel Biggar, begs to differ.
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